Like when you were shooting at 3200 ISO the night before and in the morning you're just snappin' away in broad daylight and then you pull the stuff into Lightroom and there's the grain in your shot of that thing you lovingly photographed.

It should say, "Hey dummy, it's daytime, you sure you want to keep me set at 3200 ISO?" And NO, not Auto-ISO. That gets on my nerves but then I probably did it wrong.

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Like when you were shooting at 3200 ISO the night before and in the morning you're just snappin' away in broad daylight and then you pull the stuff into Lightroom and there's the grain in your shot of that thing you lovingly photographed.

It should say, "Hey dummy, it's daytime, you sure you want to keep me set at 3200 ISO?" And NO, not Auto-ISO. That gets on my nerves but then I probably did it wrong.

Nah, I don't do that more than once a month. This is an easy feature addition and all you manual-only people with working memory can turn this Alzheimer's feature off.

I have done that a few times but not in years. I've also left custom white balance set incorrectly and had pink pictures. And once I left the camera set on a 2 stop bracket so the first shot is -1 stop but I didn't hold the button down long enough for the bracket to kick in so each shot I took was the way underexposed first shot of a bracketed set. I now have a mental checklist I run through on the camera settings every time I pick it up for a new shooting situation to avoid just such problems.

Yeah, for the most part I have a checklist but since I share the camera with Mrs. Zealand, I need to put it back with the proper lens and all settings so she can P&S it. I don't usually run full manual but have many specific settings and running at Aperture Priority with a different lens so if I don't put it back, her pics are not so good. Honestly she knows most of it, having taken optics courses in college while I never did, but finding those settings on the camera is another thing entirely.

I shoot on manual exposure very close to 100% of the time. So the worst that would have happened is I would have a few blown out shots before I discovered my error. If I'm being careless, like archipirata, I'm more likely to start out with the wrong white balance left over from a previous shoot than an ISO/exposure error.

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I shoot on manual exposure very close to 100% of the time. So the worst that would have happened is I would have a few blown out shots before I discovered my error. If I'm being careless, like archipirata, I'm more likely to start out with the wrong white balance left over from a previous shoot than an ISO/exposure error.[/quote

Needless too say, I do that too. That's easier to fix though. I'm just slippin'

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That being said, it wouldn't be too difficult to have manufacturers create a custom setting that allows you to set a high and low range on auto ISO instead of letting it run such a wide gamut.

It's certainly possible to restrict the auto ISO on most cameras already, I believe. Certainly all the ones I own.

QuotepRICE cUBE
That being said, it wouldn't be too difficult to have manufacturers create a custom setting that allows you to set a high and low range on auto ISO instead of letting it run such a wide gamut.

It's certainly possible to restrict the auto ISO on most cameras already, I believe. Certainly all the ones I own.

Yeah you can do that. But for the complete idiot I want the camera to evaluate the scene and warn me.

There may be a setting that by default is NOT enabled to give such a warning. Last October, I was at the Albuquerque Balloon Fiesta merrily snapping 50~100 shots before realizing there was NO memory card installed (and the Canon 60D I was using has NO onboard memory). The default is that the "missing card" warning is NOT active!

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There may be a setting that by default is NOT enabled to give such a warning. Last October, I was at the Albuquerque Balloon Fiesta merrily snapping 50~100 shots before realizing there was NO memory card installed (and the Canon 60D I was using has NO onboard memory). The default is that the "missing card" warning is NOT active!

QuotepRICE cUBE
That being said, it wouldn't be too difficult to have manufacturers create a custom setting that allows you to set a high and low range on auto ISO instead of letting it run such a wide gamut.

It's certainly possible to restrict the auto ISO on most cameras already, I believe. Certainly all the ones I own.

Yeah you can do that. But for the complete idiot I want the camera to evaluate the scene and warn me.

Yes, this would be a fantastic feature. The camera could just put up a message or warning light to indicate that you might be able to take a better pic if 'X' was changed (ISO, shutter speed, aperture, exposure bracketing, etc.). That could help people like me who know some of this and use it all the time but don't know all of it (I'm a bracketing noob). Or are just forgetful (me!! me!! *raises hand*).

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I hated film. One of the reasons is you never knew when the processing chemistry might be bad. Once I shot a story about bear hunting; a one-time situation. I took the film to a professional photo finishing business that I used at the time and they normally did good work. This time the chemistry was bad. I was able to pull some usable images from the shoot but some just weren't salvageable and the rest were pretty rough.

Another time when processing my own film, the chemistry either got contaminated or was bad out of the bottle (which was not unheard of). It wasn't too bad like the bear hunting thing but the film definitely didn't look as good as it should have. One of my images from that batch of chemistry ended up running in Sports Illustrated. It looked ok but I definitely would rather have had something in SI with my name on it look better.